I’d like to thank you for your participation in ENG 201. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you through your written work and your contributions to the weekly discussions. There were so many times when I gained new insight into a work as a result of something you shared […]
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Welcome to Week 16 of our online class. This week will finish our reading of the short novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I look forward to hearing your discussion board responses to the vignettes that compose this affecting coming-of-age story. This is the last full week […]
Welcome to Week 15 of our online class. This week will begin our reading of the short novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I look forward to hearing your discussion board responses to the vignettes that compose this affecting coming-of-age story.
Welcome to Week 14 of our course. This week we will be reading several works centered on the Snow White Story. These include the fairytale “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm and the poem “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Anne Sexton. An excerpt from the book The […]
Welcome to Week 13 of our course. This week we will be returning to the short story form for a reading of Joyce Carole Oates’s chilling work “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Warning: It may give you nightmares.
Welcome to Week 12 of our course. This week we will be continuing our segment on Poetry, looking at various forms, including lyric, narrative, and dramatic poems.
Welcome to Week 11 of our course. We will now be starting a two-week segment on poetry. This week we will be focusing on the iconic form of the sonnet.
Welcome to Week 10 of our online course. This week we will pause in our readings to focus on the research component of the essay you have been developing. The activities for the week are designed to help you locate a relevant secondary source in the BMCC library for your […]
Welcome to Week 9 of our online course. This week will be reading a selection of short works from the 19th Century, which feature women protagonists, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, along with the Emily Dickinson poem “The Wife.” I […]
Welcome to Week 8 of our online course. We are now at the halfway mark of the semester. Thank you again for your insightful and in-depth responses in last week’s discussion on Oedipus the King. This week we will be reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery […]
